There was a commercial back in the late 70s or early 80s that somehow showed a cartoon dinosaur being transmuted into oil. I can't remember the details.

But I also think maybe the sequence of evolution is not understood so well even by many people who believe it. Probably most adults are at least aware of the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs. Probably very few are aware that the Permian-Triassic dying was much worse (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/exfiles/massintro.htm . Probably anyone who has taken college geology would know this, but geology is not a required course for most students. It just takes a while for scientific information to percolate through the general consciousness.


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